He is the walking hermit, the world-forsaker, but he is above all things a rebel and a prophet, and he stands in very distinct relation to the life of his time.
It is the life of the wanderer and seeker, the walking hermit, the rebel against modern conditions and commercialism who has gone out into the wilderness.
In the first year of the Civil War a large number of the Cherokees took up arms on the rebel side.
Four rebel rams made an attack on the Harriet Lane, and carried her by boarding.
But no, it proves to be the Nebraska with rebel prisoners on board.
The tortuous wording of the text, and the expressions which occur in it, seem to indicate that the rebel was a prince of the royal blood, and even that the name he bears was not his real one.
We are not told the name of the rebel leader, nor those of the tribes who took part in it.
And all the while my heart sat in its cell as still as a mouse and made no movement; nay, even my conscience did not rebel at the godless way in which I denied that love we are commanded to feel toward our fellow-creatures.
Waring," from New York, bound to South America, was captured on the passage by the rebel privateer "Jeff.
The Sixth Regiment contributed its share towards completing Butler's famous canal, during which time they were often very much annoyed by the rebel shells thrown amongst them.
The negro repeats his blows with the heavy club: the rebel falls dead at Tillman's feet.
Big Bob" sported a suit of rebel gray, which his fellow-slaves could not; and the way in which he obtained it was rather amusing.
His body, along with others of the national regiments, after the battle, lay within deadly reach of the rebel sharpshooters; and all attempts to recover the body were met with a shower of Minie-bullets.
In the region from which they escaped, the blacks were being enrolled in the rebel army; and Bob and his companions were taken, and put under guard, preparatory to their being removed to the nearest military post.
A rebel took deliberate aim at me with both barrels of his gun; and the bullets passed so close to me that the powder that remained on them burnt my cheek.
A single sentinel at the door saw and hailed the colonel: he answered by exclaiming against, and inquiring for, rebel prisoners, but kept slowly advancing.
I thus said to him: 'Greeting to thee, the rebel state that does not obey me, smite it.
Ormuzd brought help to me; by the grace of Ormuzd, my forces entirely defeated that rebel army.
The convention was ripe for revolution against dominant conditions, without exactly understanding how torebel wisely and well.
He was in too desperate straits to rebel at that time.
This masterful young woman, driving him back to town, her determined profile outlined against the gloom as he gazed shyly at her, did not appear to be interested in him, except as a rebel to authority and needing chastisement.
But General Waymouth promptly discovered that he had a loyal army with rebel officers.
Rebellion against sin's dominion is already victory over it, if the rebel summons God's heavenly reinforcements to his help.
It is clear from what the Assyrian accounts tell us that his real motive in sending to Hezekiah was to induce him to rebel against Assyria.
Asia, tempted King Zedekiah to rebel against Babylon, and thus lured the little state of Judah to its destruction.
Following Chram into Brittany, where the rebel had taken refuge, Clotaire shut him up with his wife and children in a cottage, to which he set fire.
He saw Charles's error in giving himself into the hands of the Scots, and his indignation when they surrendered the king to the Parliament is expressed in the vigorous verses of "The Rebel Scot," the sting of which survives even now.
After that last treason, the King could not trust himself in the rebel camp, and only sent the Archbishop of Bordeaux to carry his signet ring, and assure his son of his pardon.
At the sight of his mortal enemy, Orleton, Edward sank to the ground, but recovered enough to listen to a violent discourse from that rebel prelate, reproaching him with all his misconduct, and requiring him to lay aside his crown.
Hardly had he reached it when the news arrived that his discontented and demoralized troops had proclaimed a rebel emperor, though the enemy was before them.
The troops of Leontius betrayed the gates of the capital to the followers of the rebel admiral, and Apsimarus seized Constantinople.
But that a native rebel should sever a civilized Greek province from the empire, and reign as "Emperor of Cyprus," was a new phenomenon.
It was on this throne that the rebel Hypatius was crowned emperor by the mob, with his own wife's necklace for an impromptu diadem.
A similar rising in Sicily under a rebel named Euphemius led to the invasion of that island by an army of Moors from Africa, who landed in 827, and maintained a foothold in spite of all efforts to expel them.
The Teutonic prime minister let the Teutonic rebel escape him, and the Visigoths rolled north again into Illyricum.
It was not till he was actually driven out by Justinian, who feared to have him about his person, that this rebel in spite of himself, fell into the hands of his own adherents.
No one would fight for Justinian, who was caught and brought before the rebel leader in company with his two odious ministers.
Till now the provinces had always obeyed the capital, and no instance had been known of a rebel maintaining himself by any other way than the capture of Constantinople.
Here was a man who had been hunted tirelessly month after month as a rebel spy.
The captor stood in silence, waiting for his men; yet, while he stood, the little rebel pattered to his side, slipping her hand in his confidingly.
Some day the 'rebel scout' may thank you also for me and mine.
Because you're a Rebel spy, that's why," came the biting answer.
The squad trooped out across the broken door, leaving their commanding officer alone with his rebel prisoner.
On one side of the road, Morrison and Cary shrank down beside the wall to let the Union riders pass; on the other, all that was left of the Rebel force ran helter-skelter for a screen of protecting trees.
Next you'll be asking me not to hang this Rebel spy because he has--a baby!
Inside the breastworks and far flung fortifications which encompassed Richmond the flower of the rebel arms, the Army of Northern Virginia, lay like a rat caught in a trap.
Morrison turned slowly from the little rebel to the man.
Another opened the knapsacks and took out a can of coffee, biscuits and some scraps of meat--not much with which to make a meal but still so much more than many a Rebel soldier had that day as to take on the proportions of a feast.
Two gunboats are reported coming up the river and a wing of the Rebel army is advancing from Petersburg.
Calleja next attacked the rebel forces at the hacienda of Marfil, and having defeated Allende, who defended himself bravely, rushed onward towards the city of Guanajuato.
Besides this, he was the first Inquisitor of Mexico, and in the dreaded mysteries of the holy office, there was an overwhelming power before which the most daring offenders would not venture to rebel or intrigue.
Fajardo once more despatched Juan Barraza, with three hundred Spanish soldiers and some Indians against therebel Tarahumares.
He received the rebel chief politely, and despatched him to the capital for trial.
As the rebel chief, armed with the sword and cross, pressed onward, immense numbers of Indians flocked to his banner, so that when he left Zelaya, a fierce and undisciplined mob of twenty thousand hailed him as undisputed commander.
The Duck Lake fight, with its balance in favour of the rebels, encouraged Big Bear up near Fort Pitt to rebeland do all the damage he could, starting in with the massacre of nine white men, Government agents, etc.
McKay had a cool head and so sparred for time, till the rebel sobered down somewhat and then McKay left and returned to Carlton, where he reported to Crozier.
And this same Big Bear also became a rebelin Riel's day and, after the Frog Lake massacre, burned Fort Pitt as an extra in his exploits, as I witnessed with my own eyes.
Butler went on to Fort Garry, passed through the rebel zone, met Wolseley and with him entered Fort Garry, which had just been evacuated by Riel.
Ryan was a man of considerable literary power, and Richardson became prominent as one of the trial judges in the cases of Riel and the other rebel leaders some years later.
Gholab Singh was employed in the Hazareh country in operations against Poyndah Khan and a rebel force when he was summoned to proceed to Peshawur.
And whilst the elements of decay were thus discernible within, there were external influences at work to weaken the rebel cause.
They moved down to the assistance of the rebel army, but the battle had been fought before they could arrive upon the field, and they only came up in time to see their countrymen in panic flight.
He exerted himself, and often with good success, to detach different tribes from the rebel cause; and was continually corresponding both with the chiefs in the Douranee camp and in the neighbouring villages.
Sufder Jung, Atta Mahomed, and the other rebel chiefs found an honourable refuge in the Douranee camp; and from that time, they who had left Candahar as our friends, presented a front of open hostility to our authority.
Our men charged at the same time in line, and the flanks swept round the Janbaz horse, who were probably not above 150 strong—numbers having left the rebel standard before reaching Chuplanee.
Since our troops left this, the King has been recognised by the Newab and the rebel chiefs on the payment of three lakhs of rupees to the Newab and Ameen-oollah Khan.
The movements of the rebel army soon settled the question between them.
The principal men of the surrounding villages were sending messages into our camp, offering to withdraw all their people from the rebel standard if we would guarantee them against the depredations of our troops.
At the end of twenty minutes, during which our guns and musketry, telling with deadly effect upon the heavy masses of the enemy, were answered by a wild and ineffective fire from their ranks, the rebel army was in confusion and flight.
Every murmur of the night air sounded to me like the approach of the rebel army.
He had gone at the stern old Duke's bidding; but--he was a rebel and would come again.
The General gave you away, I mean, and you know that I mean I am a rebel against my father's latest act of tyranny.
And what if he receive a defeat from the rebel army?
The justices, willing to foment the rebel lion in a view of profiting by the multiplied forfeitures, henceforth thought of nothing more than providing for their own present security and that of the capital.
The preachers next Sunday exclaimed against this movement of rebel nature, as they termed it; and reproached the people with their profane tenderness towards the capital enemy of piety and religion.
He pursued and fought the retreating army, and the rebel commander-in-chief surrendered.
And be ordered from his presence for the presumption, or told that I was a rebel at heart, or such tidings had never been uttered by me.
They now made me a rebel in earnest, and I came out of the 'stockbaus' more insubordinate than I went in.
I do not clearly understand you about Ireland, although I agree in the policy of putting the Protestant rebel in the foreground.
The tribes might rebel against the heaviness of his political yoke, and were often held to him by the slenderest of diplomatic threads, but their monotheistic beliefs remained intact once Islam had gained the ascendancy over them.
Finally he sighted Tebuk, where the rebelarmy was reported to be.
No longer even was he a rebel leader who had succeeded in establishing his precarious power by the sword alone.
We halted about a mile and half from the Town, when looking behind we beheld it all in a blaze, the Rebel Inhabitants and some who came the back way, set it on fire.
The surviving Rebelwill repent of his folly, and enjoy the comforts which Law and Order distribute.
About 300 of the Rebel Cavalry lead on by one Farrell formed their advanced guard, and approached the Turret in a smart trot, without appearing to apprehend any danger.
All that seems necessary to add, is to say a few words respecting the fate of this Rebel Army and its leaders.
Having procured a musket I advanced with four more till we came in sight of the dead bodies; but as the Rebel scouts were within musket shot we did not think it prudent to venture farther.
Here I met ten or twelve Loyalists with fire arms; two or three of their company were just murdered by the Rebel picquets, and some more wounded.
I have only to notice in this, that some Gentlemen who fell into the hands of the Rebels while in possession of that town were brought into the presence of the Rebel general Murphy, who is said to have been a Priest in the Co.
The Rebelcommanders deserted their men when they found the day proved unfavourable to their interests and fled towards Wexford, leaving the deluded wretches to be cut in pieces.
Our Brigade remained all night in the demesne of Harvey Hay, one of the Rebel Chiefs: next day we returned to Houlet again, where we encamped for two days.
A horrible slaughter now ensued, which lasted six or seven hours, nor did it cease while a Rebel was to be seen--1100 Rebels were left dead on the field of Action!
I shall not be diverted from the question before the Senate, although, in unfolding the necessity of present legislation for the protection of freedmen, I shall be led necessarily and logically to speak of the condition of the Rebel States.
Mark, if you please, that this is not merely in the Rebel States, nor even in the States where Slavery was recently abolished, but everywhere throughout the United States.
You have before you the actual condition of the Rebel region.
Here is a letter from a South-Carolinian who served in the Rebel army, but who now sees the error of his ways.
Thus, while deprecating Amendments to the Constitution in the absence of the eleven Rebel States, the partisan of State Rights is reconciled to the pending proposition, inasmuch as it is a triumph of this sectional pretension.
It was he that set in place the great ban, not yet lifted, by which the Rebel States were shut out from the communion of the Union.
Now, by the lapse of State governments in the Rebel States, this duty is cast upon the United States.
Why, Sir, at this moment the most important practical question before the country is, whether we shall allow the word “white” in the constitutions of the late Rebel States.
It was for Congress, he said, to say when that state of things existed which would entitle the Rebel States to perform their functions as integral parts of the Union.
But I must be pardoned, if I cannot adopt his other reason,--that we should not undertake to admit new States while our late Rebel States are still unrepresented in Congress.
And so it became a law, and also a model for similar legislation in the reconstruction of the Rebel States.
I have spoken especially for the loyal citizens now trodden down by Rebel power, and without representation on this floor.
Later, when the first paralysis of despair had passed, when her captor came to take full possession, she would rebel again wildly, madly.
I have even heard it whispered that he served with the rebel sepoys in the Mutiny.
